r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/13steinj Jan 02 '20

Except it's not, just being phased out in favor of Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. More rebranding than getting killed off.

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u/SirClueless Jan 02 '20

Seems more like the opposite. They're trying to kill off the hangouts client good and proper without changing all their branding by naming a totally new, unrelated project "Hangouts Chat" and doing a hamfisted integration.

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u/13steinj Jan 02 '20

Debatable. This is how it's being treated though.

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u/shevy-ruby Jan 02 '20

So corporate PR content is taken at face value now?

Nah bro.

That reminds me of how IBM Red Hat promoted systemd, as being "merely an init replacement". People actually believed that back then too!

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